How to Install a RV Furnace Screen

One of the problems with these ports for your furnace on the side of your RV is that the holes are big enough that stuff can get in there. So mud daubers, wrens, pretty in there anything could get in there and start to live in there. Then we have a problem where the furnace isn't gonna operate correctly because that gets clogged. These screens are available. I've already installed one on the top and that'll protect that part from getting that stuff living in there.

Now, before I go any further, I wanna say it's imperative that you check these and you clean them out. Really gonna make sure we have air flow so the furnace is safe. So make sure that on a regular basis, you're making sure that this is clean. So here's the way this baby works. The kit is a screen, a tiny spring and a spring stretchy snatching here.

So what they were gonna do is first hook the spring to the inside of the screen, and I'm gonna use some needle nose pliers for that. And this is kind of the hardest part of the whole thing is thread and everything together here. All right, now look at the outside. There's the hook on that spring, where it comes through the mesh. Now the way that this installation tool works is that we're gonna go through the mesh through the spring and it's gonna engage and this other hook component on the back of the spring.

So once I get up against the side of the RV, I can push on this, get that hook behind the center point on the port, that's what's gonna hold everything in place. And I'm just making sure now that the hook part of the hook there where that end L's over is actually engaged right there, there now that spring tension we'll hold that screen on there. So the wrens and the mud daubers, can't get in there and make nests that plug up your ports. Don't forget, clean these screens on a regular basis to make sure your furnace stays safe.